Another bad game from uncle Jeff

[chenaren]

Yeah, Green unfortunately has the stigma of where he was drafted, the circumstances of the trade, his salary, and also unfair expectations to deal with.

This part I still don't understand. He's paid like the third-best player on a reasonable team, and he's fully capable of being one. On any recent championship team, he would have been no better than the fourth-highest paid player. I'm more and more inclined to think that it is some fans and not Jeff Green that have to deal with something

Jeff Green's PER this season is 13.8 (league average 15). Humphries, Sullinger, Crawford, Bass, Rondo, Lee all have a higher PER than 13.8, so you can argue Jeff is not even the third best player in terms of efficiency, and we are not even a team that shines in PER this season.


PER stats source: http://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/bos/cat/PER/boston-celtics

[BballTim]

17 and 5 in a competitive game is not bad. Maybe not what people hope for, but not bad. Sully played poorly tonight and nobody bats an eyelash.

Except Sully's still basically a rookie. There are no expectations.

There's hope and expectations for JG.

Time to move beyond calling Sully a rookie.

Sullinger doesn't have bad games. He waits.

He also played 45 games last season, averaging 20 minutes per game. That's more than most players get in their rookie years.

So yeah, there are expectations, commesurate with his status of a second-year player who is likely to develop into an NBA starter down the road. Like for example the expectation to appear to camp looking in shape, and not looking like a meatball. Or the expectation not to chuck shots he cannot make. Or the expectation to not foul like there's no tomorrow.

Of course, he's not Jeff Green, so all that is never a topic of conversation, let alone a separate thread after each bad game.

  You really don't see how recovering from back surgery might have affected the kind of shape Sully was in at the start of the season, do you?